SOCIOL 1 Chapter Notes - Chapter many: Proxy War, Constructive Engagement, Henry Kissinger
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Chapter 12: barack obama as a ruling class candidate: the predominantly white u. s. business and political establishment makes sure nobody who questions dominant hierarchies can run for higher office. An early and quieter audition with the moneyed establishment: obama marked his entry into a well-established washington ritual-the gauntlet of fund- raising parties and meet and greets. Obama"s dollar value : made his safety to the power elite evident on matters both domestic and global. Support for bailing out wall street financial firms. Refusal to question morality of u. s. colonial wars: obama"s business-friendly centrism has helped him garner corporate cash (received more than million, media treatment is the key to obama"s success in winning support and donations from the middle-class. Global agenda 2005: samuel huntington believed the cold war was a civil war within the west and the real war is yet to come.
